Techniques for Generating Natural Language Text Customized to Linguistic Preferences of a User

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the current values for the plurality of variables representing the linguistic preferences of the user are stored in a data structure associated with the user, the data structure comprising a set of fields storing the current values.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein selecting a subset of the first plurality of text segments using the at least some of the first scores comprises selecting the text segments having the highest N scores, with N>1.